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Woke to the first snow of the year and had nearly 6" on the ground by dark. No plans to leave the house this week but will finish up...

Yes, 100% true to type. I think I grew 4 plants altogether. In your climate, do you find these a fairly easy to mature bean even if a...

So that's where the navy reference comes from! Wow, all this time I had no idea! That is the neatest historical tidbit.

I'm delighted you had good true-to-type seed as I grew them myself and had some off-types - plain black. Were all yours true St Anthony?

It seems that the term is used differently in UK from in US. I think @flowerbug is right in suggesting a connection with size but in...

Mine are the white seeded, also.

That's my association with the pea reference as well, the small white Navy beans. But I have grown the Inca Pea bean too, so I've come...

It was such a pleasure this year to grow the 'St. Anthony' bean. So grateful to you @Decoy1 because that bean has been on my wish list...

the only one i know of it is just the size of the bean (it's a small white bean) called the Navy Pea Bean or just the Navy Bean was how...

Are pea beans different than regular beans in some regard? Is the term pea meant to denote a particular kind of use?

this morning's adventure in bean sorting and shelling was an unlucky bounce when the bean i was looking at was dropped and managed to...

as i was shelling out some Purple Dove beans last night (after doing a different box of mixed beans with much tougher pods to shell) i...

As far as I’m aware, the most common European varieties with roughly that patterning but not that colouring are pea beans which come...

and to make things even more complicated about Pink Tip, many years ago someone from down south sent me some Pink Tip beans that were...

No problem as I actually thought I planted the greasy ones and have the description for Pinktip Greasy in my notes. Better to discover...